MORMONISM IN BRAZIL: RELIGION AND DEPENDENCY IN LATIN AMERICA
The history of the Mormon Church in Brazil is divided into three periods. The first, beginning in 1928, was one of limited development of small localized units in which the influence and role of American missionaries was paramount. The second period starting in the mid-1950s saw a change in attitude towards Brazil by Church authorities in the United States, accompanied by the development of some large congregations under the administrative control of Brazilian lay members. The third period between 1966 and 1978 saw regional institutional development, the establishment of a Brazilian secular bureaucracy and the evolution of a Brazilian Morman consciousness
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